On-the-fly calibrating strategies for evolutionary algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Elizabeth Montero;María-Cristina Riff

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France and Department of Computer Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Av. España No. 1680, Valparaíso, Chile;Department of Computer Science, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Av. España No. 1680, Valparaíso, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The issue of controlling values of various parameters of an evolutionary algorithm is one of the most important and interesting areas of research in evolutionary computation. In this paper we propose two new parameter control strategies for evolutionary algorithms based on the ideas of reinforcement learning. These strategies provide efficient and low-cost adaptive techniques for parameter control and they preserve the original design of the evolutionary algorithm, as they can be included without changing either the structure of the algorithm nor its operators design.